58 quotes found
“All work is the avoidance of harder work.”
“If you pay attention, you may find that it is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable, so you ...”
“Laws of silence dont work. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence dont work, its just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forg...”
“Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.”
“Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.”
“I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.”
“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a ve...”
“The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").”
“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted predisposing vulnerability fac...”
“Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)”
“Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.”
“Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didnt work as a strategy, and be able to make a cours...”
“There are some things in life that we try to ignore, thinking that maybe if we don't see the problem, it won't see us when in reality, it's only getting bigger.”
“Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' ...”
“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.”
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
“Most of us will do anything to avoid facing ourselves”
“But we always avoided talking about these thingsdifficult thingsand I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.”
“People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.”
“We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it”
